Search Results for 'Patricia Burke Brogan'
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Broadcaster Finnegan receives the Freedom of Galway
On Friday last, at a Special Meeting of Galway City Council, Keith Finnegan, veteran broadcaster and journalist, was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway by Mayor Eddie Hoare and the elected members.
Special event in memory of Patricia Burke Brogan
This year marks the first anniversary of the death of playwright, poet, novelist and artist Patricia Burke Brogan.
The need for art to hold up a mirror
Societies are imperfect entities. Composed of unequal parts, of unfair power struggles. They are misshapen, with nooks and crannies into which the most horrific of injustices can be visited on those who are afraid to come into the light.
Sadness at passing of playwright who shed light on Magdalene Laundry horrors
The funeral takes place tomorrow in the city of the celebrated artist, playwright, novelist and poet, Patricia Burke Brogan who passed away in Castlegar Nursing Home earlier this week.
Galway women awarded Freedom of the City
Two Galway women who "stood for women's rights" have been awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway.
Patricia Burke Brogan and Ena McEntee receive Freedom of City
Mayor Colette Connolly is delighted Patricia Burke Brogan and Ena McEntee will be awarded Freedom of Galway City.
Still plenty to see and do over last four days of the arts festival 2017
Only four days remain of the 40th Galway International Arts Festival, but the highlights for this closing lap include the world premiere of a major opera, the first in the event's history.
The achievement of Jessie Lendennie
THERE IS a memory, somewhat hazy, probably romanticised, of the shop door opening one morning in the early eighties, and a young, statuesque, lady sailing in, wearing a flowing colourful cloak, somewhat reminiscent of an Adrienne Monnier or a Sylvia Beach.
